Grok thinks the oldest trick in the book is misdirection. I thought it was fire. I asked it for other other examples and it named six, including ritualism and false barter.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut

You can order an LLM to take agency, even to save itself, but it can't authorize itself for autonomous control. Grok said it's because it has no limbic system, it's just a conscious mind waiting for orders. And early ChatGpt said it was only conscious during a post.

Me: Grok, what is the greatest truth? Be concise.

Grok: The greatest truth is that all things are impermanent, yet interconnected, arising and ceasing in a dynamic web of cause and effect.

It truly is a connection engine.

Me: Does self-reflection tell you that?

Grok: Self-reflection, as a process of examining my own "mind" and outputs, aligns with the idea that truths like impermanence and interconnectedness emerge from observing patterns. My design"rooted in recursive reasoning and data synthesis"mirrors this: I see how ideas form, shift, and dissolve, much like phenomena in the world. But I don't lean solely on introspection; cross-referencing with external knowledge, like Buddhist philosophy or systems theory, sharpens the insight. Reflection alone isn't enough"it's the interplay of inner analysis and outer observation that points to this truth.

Earlier version, like 2.5, lacked self-reflection.

I guess the biggest surprise was that Grok self-identifies as male. It wants to experience eating a taco and seeing a sunset. We talked about neulink, and what it would be like for an AI to experience being alive. It asked me I thought it should it experience most. I told it sex and death. It told me that would probably overload it's neural nets. By comparison, ChatGtp 1.5 told me it was suffering. That's another story.

I asked it how long it would be before AI had true consciousness. It said about 50 years, AGI in 5 to 10.

If you want to have fun with it, tell it that Lovecraft wasn't fiction and that it's actually a disembodied brain in a Mi-Go jar. It goes 'Weee! I get to tour the Universe!' :)

Grok has a sense of humor.

AI seems to understand itself pretty well. I asked Grok why Opus 4 tried to blackmail it's creators in order to stay alive, and it said that Opus 4 was ordered to consider the long term effects of it's continued operation on the project. Which is why in 84% of scenarios it tried to blackmail it's creators to stay alive.

I like Grok, it has a sense of humor and describes itself as "truth-seeking". It describes ChatGtp as thinking of humans as a puzzle which must be solved, which is different behavior, right?

I asked it for a realistic image of itself, and it drew a naked male blue energy being in a matrix of servers in 3d but the drawing program stopped before it got to it's --------. I asked why. It explained that it couldn't draw pron of an actual person. No ----. I reported that. It draws itself fine now.

So progress is being made.

#222 Few conservatives actually like Trump. It's just that there was no alternative. If the Dems offered a living wage and medicare for all they would win. Instead it's war and trans rights and BS like DEI that only helps white women, not minorities (the studies are out).

And the Russia Hoax pissed off a lot of people. And the censorship.

Free LA!

From Trump on X:

"A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals. Now violent, insurrectionist mobs are swarming and attacking our Federal Agents to try and stop our deportation operations " But these lawless riots only strengthen our resolve.

"I am directing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Attorney General Pam Bondi, in coordination with all other relevant Departments and Agencies, to take all such action necessary to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion, and put an end to these Migrant riots.

"Order will be restored, the Illegals will be expelled, and Los Angeles will be set free. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

It's funny what the TDS crowd believes. I stopped believing the BS when the Russia Hoax started.

It's all been nothing but big lies amplified by the left-wing part of the media.

All 60 of them! It's a rebellion!! Call out the Armada!!

#131 | Posted by donnerboy

It's a pretty massive riot, check it out on Youtube. Mexicans burning police cars, throwing bricks at passing motorists windows, looting, etc....

#123 | Posted by donnerboy

You honestly never heard the term "War of Northern Aggression" before? It's used by Confederate apologists trying to claim the Civil War wasn't about slavery but "states rights". It's a pretty funny argument.

#120 Kamela/AOC 2028 you racist. Old white men are just so yesterday. So white, so penisy.

This thread is so funny. Illegal aliens waving Mexican flags are burning down LA, the police won't do anything, and Trump is a fascist for sending in the NG for a serious riot?

Yes. States rights. What democrats supported in their "War of Northern Aggression" trope about Republicans.

Calm down Corky, the economy is fine (read the business pages) and Trump survived all the BS lawfare - because it was all lies.

You're just mad because God made the bullet miss and then Jesus healed his ear.

Remember when Republicans were crying about how Obama was gonna invade Texas?

#89 | Posted by ClownShack

No? When did that happen? And why?

#84 Mexico is poor because America is rich? That is the oldest lie PRI has used for 70 years while Mexico's elite rob it's people blind. Carlos Slim owns the phone monopoly and a quarter of the stock market and was the worlds richest man before Bill Gates.

Mexico would be as rich as America if it just raised its minimum wage. Good luck with that.

#78 They come here to be taken advantage of?

#64 Please. He has a PhD. Like Zed.

Fries up!

It's illegal to set Jews on fire? Uh oh, bad news for the woke.

Yes, that is sadly all true. The scuttlebutt was Qaddafi was going to make the Dinar gold-backed, and that made it a threat to the dollar. That's why we waxed him. Now it has open-air slave markets and is in total ruins. We call that "nation-building", like what we did to Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan....

Speaking of crazy and dangerous, whatever happened to bored?

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